From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,74b2c28810483a9c X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,88b676af04f3073d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: campo@mailbox.difi.unipi.it Subject: Re: future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad) Date: 1998/04/17 Message-ID: <6h7b30$5af$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 344972448 References: <6gm6jc$fbp@newshub.atmnet.net> <6gs5qa$s46@newshub.atmnet.net> <6gt05f$rt8@drn.newsguy.com> <6gthdp$bje$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <3533DD6A.B2EB8D16@kla-tencor.com> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i686) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 proxy.unipi.it:8080 (Squid/1.1.20) for client 131.114.19.65 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Apr 17 10:31:58 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1998-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3533DD6A.B2EB8D16@kla-tencor.com>, David Masterson wrote: > Fah! This is a smokescreen that should be obvious by now. GPL'd > software is not conducive to building a software development business > around. Over the years of watching the rise of the GNU Manifesto and > GPL'd software, I've come to the following conclusions: [snip] GPL'd software leads to competition; hoarded software leads to monopolistic practices. It may be bad for a few (or just one :) giantcorporation, but it can be much better for end users (I won't write "consumers") and for smaller, dynamic enterprises. [mega snip] > The current interest in "free" software is largely due to a backlash > against Microsoft. If Microsoft succeeds in quelling this backlash, > then the fervor for "free" software will die down (it won't go away) and > so will the progress that GPL'd software is making. The current *hype* in free software (a very recent phenomenon) may be due to a backlash against Microsoft. But the *interest* in free software has a much deeper ground. Now that complete, high-quality free software systems are available and popular, they spread on their own merit; not only technical merit, relying too much on hoardware *is* dangerous. -- Massimo Campostrini, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading